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VOL. XXVI.

JULY, 1901.

No. I.

GREAT MOVEMENTS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

I. THE SWEEP OF THE CENTURY AND ITS MEANING.

'HE mariner must know the currents of the sea he sails

THE

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